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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.5.
   For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.  However,
    if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.3, see the release
    notes for 8.0.3.
    Also, you might need to <TT
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    columns after updating, if you are affected by the locale or
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>Fix Windows code so that postmaster will continue rather
than exit if there is no more room in ShmemBackendArray (Magnus)</P
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>The previous behavior could lead to a denial-of-service situation if too
many connection requests arrive close together.  This applies
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>Fix bug introduced in 8.0 that could allow ReadBuffer
to return an already-used page as new, potentially causing loss of
recently-committed data (Tom)</P
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>Fix for protocol-level Describe messages issued
outside a transaction or in a failed transaction (Tom)</P
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>Fix character string comparison for locales that consider
different character combinations as equal, such as Hungarian (Tom)</P
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>This might require <TT
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textual columns.</P
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>Set locale environment variables during postmaster startup
to ensure that <SPAN
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>plperl</SPAN
> won't change the locale later</P
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>This fixes a problem that occurred if the <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>postmaster</SPAN
> was
started with environment variables specifying a different locale than what
<SPAN
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>initdb</SPAN
> had been told.  Under these conditions, any use of
<SPAN
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> was likely to lead to corrupt indexes.  You might need
<TT
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textual columns if this has happened to you.</P
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>Allow more flexible relocation of installation
directories (Tom)</P
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>Previous releases supported relocation only if all installation
directory paths were the same except for the last component.</P
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>Fix longstanding bug in strpos() and regular expression
handling in certain rarely used Asian multi-byte character sets (Tatsuo)</P
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>Various fixes for functions returning <TT
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(Tom) </P
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>Fix bug in <TT
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> gen_salt,
which caused it not to use all available salt space for MD5 and
XDES algorithms (Marko Kreen, Solar Designer)</P
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>Salts for Blowfish and standard DES are unaffected.</P
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>Fix <TT
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rather than crashing, when the number of columns specified is different from
what's actually returned by the query (Joe)</P
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